Weapons Quotes

• I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Democracy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • War
  • Courage
  • Weapons

• No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • Technology
  • Matter

• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  

  Emmett Tyrrell
  • Support
  • Views
  • Prejudice

• We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

  

  Bernard C. Parks
  • United States
  • Weapons
  • Collection

• I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

  

  Attila the Stockbroker
  • Team
  • Weapons
  • Searching

• Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

  

  Carolyn Hart
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Depends

• I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Existence

• We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

  

  Mohammed Aldouri
  • Weapons
  • Chemical
  • Biological

• Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Failure
  • Weapons
  • Destroying

• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  

  David Corn
  • Important
  • Choices
  • Critical

• We were certainly worried about the deployment of chemical weapons across Syria by all parties, frankly, by the Islamic State as well. So it was a concern.

  

  Andrew Exum
  • Weapons
  • Concern
  • Deployment

• My only two weapons: time and silence.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Time
  • Silence
  • Weapons

• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Choice
  • Results
  • Mediocre

• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • Numbers
  • Amount
  • Nuclear

• Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Trying
  • War
  • Said

• Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Words
  • Write
  • Photographs

• I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Weapons
  • Trees
  • Gentlehobbits

• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Patience

• What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Accepting
  • Embrace
  • Weapons

• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Used
  • Capitalism
  • Helpful

• This is not an approach that would be tolerated in other forms of protest. Anti-nuclear activists may blockade power stations or weapons facilities. Even they would regard it as irresponsible to try to sabotage them, aiming to cause maximum damage, in the expectation that the resulting debate will outweigh the harm done.

  

  Edward Lucas
  • Damage
  • Harm
  • Protest

• Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

  

  George Takei
  • Weapons
  • Access
  • Arguments

• I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Want
  • Weapons
  • Beat

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